Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
5 results
  • King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette kneel in prayer as Louis becomes king of France on the death of Louis XV. Line engraving with etching by F.A.B. Audibran after J. David, 1883.
  • The head of King Louis XVI being cut off by a guillotine. Etching by James Gillray, 1793.
  • The education of King Louis XV: Venus hands him over to a centaur for education in manly ways. Etching by L. Cars, ca. 1757, after F. Boucher.
  • Sir Robert Walpole as Jack in 'Jack and the beanstalk'; representing his domination by the giants Spain and potentially France in the 'War of Jenkin's Ear'. Engraving by C Mosley, 1739.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.